why is my compiler so slow?

Blu-star · 01-02-2004, 07:01 PM

i installed mplayer on my computer, and when i started compiling it took real long time, i guess it took around 4-5 minutes. i have a celeron 2.2ghz, is this normal or is there something wrong?

i also compiled in some codecs, but still.

ash4stuff · 01-02-2004, 07:25 PM

Compiling is a very CPU intensive process, 4 or 5 minutes doesnt sound like a long time to me.

g-rod · 01-02-2004, 07:33 PM

I don't know that might not be so good. Without going through performance test lets just see what the kernel thinks.
dmesg | grep Bogo;
I have an XP21000 nad get 3460. This is just a "finger in the air" benchmark nothing else.

Gill Bates · 01-02-2004, 07:44 PM

no that sounds about right for mplayer, but yeah, vs installing on windows, installing on linux can take much longer becuase u have the source code and it needs to be not only compiled but linked and all that stuff, (linking takes a whole load of time)

Blu-star · 01-03-2004, 12:10 AM

dmesg | grep Bogo
Calibrating delay loop... 4390.91 BogoMIPS <---i got no clue what that is, but thats what i got.

ok, i just thought that it seems so wierd that a program could compile that long, i guess im just used to the binary world (thats windows)

thanks for clearing this up.